Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

yelofneb-63037 ***if spoilers, then...***.I just cannot agree with any of the reviewers who claim to see anything of serious merit in this movie. In a previous review of Ariel Vromen's debut, Rx, I suggested, without having seen Danika, that Rx, with a little adjustment could have been a better class of Lifetime movie. I stick with that opinion and would add that I suspect he detected that himself and constructed Danika with a view to better capturing the attention of that kind of audience.If you were not surprised by the ending of Jacob's Ladder, then you won't be at the end of Danika, either. While Ariel Vromen can't be blamed for Jacob's Ladder, he should certainly be held to account for Danika. If it's an homage to to some loved person in his past, it is one that can only be treasured by those who knew and/or loved the source of its inspiration, because, for any other intelligent audience, the presentation remains unsympathetic and remote.I actually like Marisa Tomei but not in this movie. Whoever her agent is, is doing her a great disservice in sending her scripts as horrendous as this. She's a charming actress in roles better suited to her skills, but, ultimately, it's just a boring and predictable piece that no star actress in the world could have redeemed. It's Tomei's fault that Danika is boring, irritating and completely bereft of any possibility of sympathy. Both the actress and the role are victims of the fact that Ariel Vromen's best works as a director are those where the protagonist/antagonist is male, as in The Iceman and in Criminal. Both of these are solidly entertaining, from beginning to end. Danika is just plain irritating, from start to finish, and if it seems a harsh critique to suggest that Vromen should avoid works with female leads, the other two mentioned movies are proof that his talent lies in making the most grotesque males seem sympathetic, without, as in the case of the Iceman, hiding the horrors committed.That's an invaluable skill at any time in the history of the world, because that is the only way to make sense, and not sensationalism, of the human capacity to sometimes be oblivious to the fact that, in the words of an old spiritual song, you're drifting too far from the shore.The ideas of guilt and responsibility, of culpability, seem the central issue of Ariel Vromen's catalog, so far--but the delivery of Danika's story is paper-thin and unfortunately far too predictable from the start to be engaging.

littlemsceo DO NOT READ this comment IF YOU WANT TO WATCH THE MOVIE>>>>>IT will spoil it for youThis Movie was very good for about the first hour and then the end was like OMG! It just went off and she was the bum that she had been seeing the entire movie , I absolutely hated the movie! How was the doctor the same nanny her husband was sleeping with? What was up with this Foreign Exchange Student with AIDS? Crazy MOVIE...It was too many psychotic episodes! This lady had a serious mental condition that leaves you just as confused as she is. Not Scary Not Worth Your timeNext.......

Milo-Jeeder Let's see: I had great expectations towards this film, since Danika pretty much has the potential to be a fairly enjoyable thriller, but to my disappointment, it turned out to be one of those films that deliberately try to be confusing just for kicks. I don't know about the others, but I'd say I had my share of these kinds of psychological thrillers that usually lead to the same disappointing endings and nonsensical sequences. You know, the typical soft-horror/thriller/drama flick in which the main character keeps having hallucinations and visions about horrible things happening around her and the rest of the characters are dead worried but they still don't do anything to help her out. Even though Ariel Vromen succeeds to create a puzzling atmosphere and there are two or three enjoyable moments, I'd say that these 'twist in the end' fever has been pretty much overdone already. This film pretty much offers a nice variety of pointless hallucination sequences in which Marisa Tomei, giving a flawless performance, always repeats the same situations but in different scenarios. Obviously, it ends up getting tedious after a a while. 'Danika' is the story of a genuinely desperate housewife, whose main fear is to lose one of her children or the three of them, for that matter. This obsession of overprotecting her kids, turns out to be the result of a traumatic childhood experience, in which poor little Danika loses her brother in a road accident. During the course of the film, the mentally unstable woman, appears basically smothering her children and over-worrying about every little thing, making the rest of her family lose their patience. However, it is clear to Danika that something is definitely not okay with her, as she realizes that she's experiencing weird hallucinations that turn her life into hell on earth.This film offers a few sequences that promise some sort of explanation whatsoever or at least a tiny little connection to the end. Nevertheless, just like many other recent flicks out there with a twist in the end, 'Danika' turned out to be ambiguous for no reason and it tries to deceive the audience and doubt about their own intelligence. My advice is to avoid this film, unless you are bored and you have nothing else to see. I wouldn't label it as 'unwatchable', because that would be unfair, considering that there are a few good things that deserve to be appreciated, but it's mostly Marisa Tomei's performance actually. 'Danika' is not terribly bad, but frankly, I was utterly disappointed when the good atmosphere and the few achievements were suddenly overshadowed by the silly ending. I wouldn't recommend this... sorry.

suey-6 This was one of the worst and stupidest movies I have ever watched. And completely sans any type of ending. Was not even worth $1 theater price or a free rental. Don't waste your time or money on it. This is sure to take Tomei's career right to the dumper. The special effects were atrocious. The plotlessness was magnificent, something a high school kid might have written. The only bright spot: Craig Bierko, who did a fine job on Boston Legal as Jeffrey Koho...don't blame HIM for this one. And what was the point of this anyway?? Real crazy people are far more interesting...and at least their lives are real. Who wrote this screenplay? And who paid to make this movie? Really sorry we bothered with it.